The Roberts Family

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Fashionista

Okay, so it's been a while now that Elli has quite a strong opinion in her fashion. She rarely lets me dress her in something coordinating that I've bought her. She always has to be wearing a dress or a skirt. The most recent time that I tried to get her to leave the house without a skirt over her pants, she stood outside by the front door covering her "pelvic" region as if she felt naked, crying saying she needs her dress. And I also have to ask her opinion before I even buy something because if she says she doesn't like it in the store, I've learned the expensive lesson that they is no convincing her to wear it once we get home.

Some of these pictures are dating back to November, but here's a portfolio of little Miss Fashionista:

For random reasons, Elli feels the need to be a superhero while she watches TV.

Check out the footies in the high heels:

Can't wait til her hair grows out so it'll stop doing this:

I swear she picked this outfit... including the pink hippy head band.

My sister-in-law, Melanie is the awesomest party thrower and since she now has a hubby and two boys, I guess she needed a little estrogen around the house. So she hosted a princess tea party. She can totally put together an awesome "table-scape" as Sarah Lee would say it. It was so cute and Elli felt just like a real princess.

Yummy!

Elli and Maddie

Every time Elli would take a sip of her hot chocolate, she would say "mmmmm" really loudly and every time someone would comment to her about being Snow White, she'd reply "whistle while you work".

There was a princess make-up table with all sorts of make up and glitter and jewelry and tiaras. Here's Elli's makeover performed by Kinz:

Elli insists on wearing her princess outfits often, so here we are at the Sportsman Show at the Puyallup Fair and she is Snow White.

I wanted to postpone the whole "Barbie" phase until Elli was a little older, but she came back from the store with Daddy with this.

She couldn't wait to get on her Sleeping Beauty dress to match her Sleeping Beauty ballerina. The good thing is that the leotard is painted on so at least we won't have naked Barbie dolls laying around..... yet.

Elli in new her pink sunglasses.

I just took these today and YES there is sunshine outside!! David felt like getting some yard work done so Elli of coarse loves to assist daddy is whatever he's doing (even though she's being calling him David all week). She went outside looking like a little diva rock star.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

MAJOR Catch Up!!

Okay, you all know how when you let something run farther and farther behind and then it just seems more and more impossible to catch up as time, holidays, and events pass. Well, I'm finally just doing it... catching this blog up. It's not going to be pretty, but Elli is doing some pretty cute stuff and I can't blog about it until I catch up with then end of 2010 and beginning of 2011!

So here comes a photo dump:

Making popcorn balls for Halloween

They're supposed to look like pumpkins.... I said "supposed to"

This is what our bellies look like after we ate too much

Batgirl - She picked her costume this year, but if we could have found a Princess Fiona costume she would have been an ogre. If you called her Batman, she would correct you, "No I'm BatGIRL!"

Waiting for trick or treaters to come, she got so excited whenever the doorbell rang. In fact, three days later, the FedEx guy rang the doorbell and Elli screamed, " AHH! TRICK OR TREATERS!!"

Fast Forward to December, one of her winter dresses...

I crotchet'd the cute bow

Decorating the Christmas tree, we let her do most of the decorating, so basically almost all of our ornaments ended up only three feet off the ground.

peek a boo

Yes, she is wearing her underwear over her pants

Somehow Elli understood that we put pretty and beautiful things on the tree, so naturally her Belle princess underwear should be on the tree too. This was so funny to me, I left them up there until she wanted to wear them.

Getting ready to see Santa Claus at our Church Christmas party. I wanted to see if I could get her hair curly without the risk of burning her with a hot curling iron. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to let her hair dry all the way, so it ended up being kinda funky.

But when she looked at herself in the mirror, she said "I look like a queen!"

This is her Sunday Christmas dress, she still wears this skirt quite often over her jeans.

Sunday morning at my parent's place, she got princess up dress up clothes. Here she is working on her Lego train

Her new baby set

This is coming into 2011. Her best girlfriend is Lucy and here they are playing together in her room. When I told her Lucy was coming over, she was so excited and began picking out all the princess stuff she wanted Lucy to wear.

Here's after dress up time and Lucy wanted to wear a princess pull up like Elli

You know how amazing things can appear in your tortillas... Mother Teresa... Jesus.... Well as Elli was playing with her lunch she began saying "BATMAN!! BATMAN!!" It took me a second to realize what she was talking about.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Spooner Farms 2010

With Halloween books and stores and Halloween talk at daycare, Elli has been getting very excited about the season. Elli talked a lot about a "pumpkin patch" since it's in one of her books. So Wednesday morning this last week, we went out to Spooner Farms.

Here's Daddy and Elli sitting on a "cowch"

Eating fresh donuts

So Elli got a little tramatized in the animal barn of which there are a few videos below. So after that, she was afraid of everything especially the pumpkin house.

Daddy trying to show her how to be a pumpkin face, but again she was too freaked out to do anything he asked her.

Very cautiously watching the pumpkins

Here she's handing me a stem she pulled off a pumpkin.

Her prize and joy: a baby pumpkin. Notice how in all the photos she's carrying her baby (named "Peaches"), and so naturally she held her baby pumpkin and rocked it.